Sensopia raises $1.2 million in funding to improve reality augmenting app MagicPlan and released a development kit to make it embeddable in other applications.
"It just can't be the case that people are walking around heads down tapping on a screen," he says. "That just can't be the future of the human race."
Of course, he is 57 years old, was born in the 1950s, and was the CEO of a boring enterprise software company, Novell, before joining the much more au courant Google. But still, he's right.
The noob "Google Glass or Google Glasses" question sounds like its about to get tougher to answer: Google Glass is going bi.
Google Developers posted pictures today of its super-secret, ultra-confidential, if-you-tell-anyone-about-it-we'll-kill-you Google Glass Foundry event, where developers got to touch, wear, develop for, and maybe even fondle the hottest Google hardware product ever not yet released.
Guest Post Next year, I predict that augmented reality (AR) will be everywhere. Here are my five reasons why:
With Wallit, a free new iOS app launching today, real-world places are finally getting the equivalent of Facebook walls of their own.
The app lets you leave text, photos, video, and audio messages on virtual walls for specific locations — …
In a bid to make augmented reality more than just a buzzword, AR company Total Immersion will make its D’Fusion Studio software free for developers, it said today. The move should remove a significant barrier to entry towards creating augmented …
Occipital, the company behind the popular panoramic photo app 360 Panorama, announced today that it has received $7 million in first round funding led by Foundry Group.
The company plans on using the influx of funding to make a big …
Augmented reality (AR) company Metaio will show a demo at next week’s Mobile World Congress in which AR on your mobile phone shows you how to change a printer toner cartridge.
Augmented reality overlays digital information over your view of …
Tonchidot, a mobile augmented reality (AR) platform provider, just landed $12 million in second round funding. Several Japanese companies and venture capitalists participated in the round, including mobile operator KDDI Corporation, media conglomerate Recruit Co. Ltd., and mobile advertising company …
Ogmento, a New York, N.Y.-based gaming company in the augmented reality scene (a technology that allows users to see virtual data superimposed on views of the real world) has raised $3.5 million dollars in a first round of institutional funding.…
Canesta, a startup that makes chips to enable electronic devices to “see” by locating objects in three dimensions, has announced a major partnership today with natural user interface company YDreams to develop augmented reality (AR) offerings.
AR applications are used …
Metaio has been working hard for 18 months on an augmented-reality (AR) “digital box” for Lego, the Danish toy manufacturer. After being tested in a few locations, the product is now hitting Lego retail stores worldwide, and with it, consumers …
